Academic Sessions: London 2003
Articulating meanings in late medieval and early modern interiors
Convenors:
Rupert Shepherd, Department of Western Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford OX1 2PH, (from 21 October); Tel: 07941 187904; rupert@ferrara.u-net.com
Flora Dennis, AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU. Tel:+44 20 7590 4188; Fax:+44 29 7590 4580; flora.dennis@rca.ac.uk
Abstract:
The acts of building, decorating, furnishing, using and representing interiors are laden with meanings, implied or explicit. These meanings can inform us about the interiors’ creators, owners and users; about political, social and familial aspirations and attitudes; and about the reciprocal relationships between people and interiors. This session will explore the methods which people used to articulate some of these meanings through their relationships with the interiors they owned, used or represented, concentrating on the visual and material cultures of Europe c.1300–c.1600.
Mary Vaccaro (University of Texas at Arlington) Reconsidering Parmigianino’s Camerino for Paola Gonzaga at Fontanellato.
Molly H. Bourne (Syracuse University in Florence) The Domestic Interior in Renaissance Mantua: An Analysis of the Stivini Inventory of 1540‘42.
Andrea Gáldy (University of Manchester) New Flesh on Old Bones: Cosimo I de’ Medici, Vasari and the Making of a Palazzo Ducale in 16th–Century Florence.
Jacqueline Marie Musacchio (Vassar College) Antonio de’Medici and the Casino di San Marco: Identity and Interiors at the Florentine Court.
Claudia Goldstein (William Paterson University) Luxury, Greed, and Sentimentality: Multivalent Household Goods in Early Modern Antwerp Jonathan Foyle (Historic Royal Palaces) The Conception and Experience of Thomas Wolsey‘s State Apartments at Hampton Court Palace, c.1515–30.
James Lindow (Victoria & Albert Museum / Royal College of Art) Theorising on the Domestic Interior in 15th–Century Florence: Magnificence and Splendour.
Marta Ajmar (Victoria & Albert Museum / Royal College of Art) Open House? Objects, Leisure and Domesticity in 16th–Century Italy.
Silvia Evangelisti (University of Birmingham) Articulations of Religious Discipline: Interiors in Early Modern Italian Convents Leah Knight (Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario) Domesticating Plants and Books in Later 16th–Century England.
Claire Lamont (University of Newcastle) Old Capulet’s House: The Domestic Interior in Romeo and Juliet.
Ann Matchette (University of Sussex / AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior) Reconstructing Meanings: Disposal of Domestic Objects in 15th–and 16th–Century Florence.
Catherine Richardson (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham) Distinguished Rooms: Status and the Experience of the Domestic Interior.
Maurice Howard (University of Sussex) Public spaces, domestic interiors: England 1500–1650
Rupert Shepherd, Department of Western Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford OX1 2PH, (from 21 October); Tel: 07941 187904; rupert@ferrara.u-net.com
Flora Dennis, AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU. Tel:+44 20 7590 4188; Fax:+44 29 7590 4580; flora.dennis@rca.ac.uk
Abstract:
The acts of building, decorating, furnishing, using and representing interiors are laden with meanings, implied or explicit. These meanings can inform us about the interiors’ creators, owners and users; about political, social and familial aspirations and attitudes; and about the reciprocal relationships between people and interiors. This session will explore the methods which people used to articulate some of these meanings through their relationships with the interiors they owned, used or represented, concentrating on the visual and material cultures of Europe c.1300–c.1600.
Mary Vaccaro (University of Texas at Arlington) Reconsidering Parmigianino’s Camerino for Paola Gonzaga at Fontanellato.
Molly H. Bourne (Syracuse University in Florence) The Domestic Interior in Renaissance Mantua: An Analysis of the Stivini Inventory of 1540‘42.
Andrea Gáldy (University of Manchester) New Flesh on Old Bones: Cosimo I de’ Medici, Vasari and the Making of a Palazzo Ducale in 16th–Century Florence.
Jacqueline Marie Musacchio (Vassar College) Antonio de’Medici and the Casino di San Marco: Identity and Interiors at the Florentine Court.
Claudia Goldstein (William Paterson University) Luxury, Greed, and Sentimentality: Multivalent Household Goods in Early Modern Antwerp Jonathan Foyle (Historic Royal Palaces) The Conception and Experience of Thomas Wolsey‘s State Apartments at Hampton Court Palace, c.1515–30.
James Lindow (Victoria & Albert Museum / Royal College of Art) Theorising on the Domestic Interior in 15th–Century Florence: Magnificence and Splendour.
Marta Ajmar (Victoria & Albert Museum / Royal College of Art) Open House? Objects, Leisure and Domesticity in 16th–Century Italy.
Silvia Evangelisti (University of Birmingham) Articulations of Religious Discipline: Interiors in Early Modern Italian Convents Leah Knight (Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario) Domesticating Plants and Books in Later 16th–Century England.
Claire Lamont (University of Newcastle) Old Capulet’s House: The Domestic Interior in Romeo and Juliet.
Ann Matchette (University of Sussex / AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior) Reconstructing Meanings: Disposal of Domestic Objects in 15th–and 16th–Century Florence.
Catherine Richardson (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham) Distinguished Rooms: Status and the Experience of the Domestic Interior.
Maurice Howard (University of Sussex) Public spaces, domestic interiors: England 1500–1650